C4 Modeling with PlantUML and AsciiDoc

C4 models allow us to visualize software architecture by decomposition in containers and components. Viewpoints are organized in hierarchical levels: Context Diagrams (Level 1) Container Diagrams (Level 2) Component Diagrams (Level 3) Code Diagrams (Level 4) C4-PlantUML offers a variety of macros and stereotypes that make modeling fun. An example in PlantUML: sample.puml @startuml !include <c4/C4_Context.puml> !include <c4/C4_Container.puml> left to right direction Person(user, "User") System_Ext(auth, "AuthService", "Provides authentication and authorization via OIDC") System_Boundary(zone1, "Some system boundary") { System(lb, "Load Balancer") System_Boundary(az, "App Cluster") { System(app, "App Servers") { Container(app1, "App1", "Docker", "Does stuff") Container(app2, "App1", "Docker", "Does stuff") ContainerDb(dbSess, "Session DB", "Redis") ContainerDb(db1, "RBMS 1", "AWS RDS Postgres") ContainerDb(db2, "RBMS 2", "AWS RDS Postgres") ' both app servers sync sessions via redis Rel(app1, dbSess, "Uses", "Sync Session") Rel(app2, dbSess, "Uses", "Sync Session") ' both app servers persist data in RDBMS Rel(app1, db1, "Uses", "Persist/query relational data") Rel(app2, db2, "Uses", "Persist/query relational data") } } } Rel(user, lb, "call") Rel(lb, app1, "delegate") Rel(lb, app2, "delegate") Rel(app1, auth, "Verify", "User auth") Rel(app2, auth, "Verify", "User auth") SHOW_FLOATING_LEGEND() @enduml ...

November 1, 2022 · 1 min · 207 words · Micha Kops

Kubernetes Snippets

Fetch and Decode Secret You need to have jq installed to use this snippet! kubectl --context=my-context -n my-namespace get secret my-secret-name -o json | jq '.data | map_values(@base64d)' Rerun existing completed Job kubectl replace deletes the old job, if there is any error, your job definition is lost, don’t forget to save it first! Replace an existing Job with itself kubectl get job JOBNAME -o yaml | kubectl replace --force -f - ...

March 1, 2010 · 10 min · 2064 words · Micha Kops